Stone Age flour found across Europe

NatureNews ^ | Oct 18, 2010 | Ewen Callaway

[Islander7]

Once thought of as near total carnivores, early humans ate ground flour 20,000 years before the dawn of agriculture. Flour residues recovered from 30,000-year-old grinding stones found in Italy, Russia and the Czech Republic point to widespread processing and consumption of plant grain, according to a paper published online this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences1.

"It's another nail in the coffin of the idea that hunter–gatherers didn't use plants for food," says Ofer Bar-Yosef, an archaeologist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who was not involved in the study. Work in recent years has also uncovered a handful of Stone Age sites in the Near East with evidence for plant-eating.

[SunkenCiv]

Hey, at least we found out why you don’t use your real name. ;’) ;’) ;’)

[Lazamataz]

Why would you want to be a biscuit?

Cuz then a pretty girl might eat me.

Silly question.

[Happy Rain]

Another one:

"Vegetables ain't food—FOOD eats vegetables!"

[elli1]

Makes you wonder what the ‘experts’ thought the Stone Agers were doing with all those grinding stones that they found laying around, if not making flour.

[edcoil]

Wonder what early man did with corn fields? Guessing ate.

[tiki]

Duh, they were called hunters, GATHERERS! What did they hunt meat and then gather it or did they gather meat and then hunt it, LOL.

Of course they had fruits, vegetables and grains in their diets, they just didn’t farm them.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

‘Wonder what early man did with corn fields? Guessing ate.’

Not to be too picky but early man didn’t eat corn (maize), because, unlike other grains, corn as we know it was created by man from ancestral grains which are not very corn-like.

[6SJ7]

I’m waiting for someone to dig up the first paleolithic cheeseburger.

[Rodamala]

So human had bread with their meat. Why is this a surprise.

ucanthascheezburger